farewell
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"I am confident that Britain is now stronger and fairer than it was two years ago," Starmer told reporters in his farewell speech outside Downing Street.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Less than a year later, in June 1986, the duo performed together for the last time at their farewell concert, The Final, at Wembley Stadium.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Four years after being catapulted into global stardom, the pair are bidding a bittersweet farewell to the roles that have defined their own coming of age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The Johnny Knoxville-led crew bids farewell to over 20 years of camaraderie and laughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The cop snapped his pad closed, and each officer gave Carla and her mother a salute of farewell.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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It is also a time of farewells, when school graduates leave their hometown while many corporate professionals receive assignments in new cities.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
"Those performances, emotional, soulful, and full of light, were not farewells, but gifts," the post says.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
When the participants tried to end a conversation, researchers had the companion either reply with the same manipulative farewells they had observed popular AI companions use or, in the control condition, say goodbye.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Instead of the traditional party — and an accompanying feast of pizza, papusas and other Mexican and Central American delicacies — students handed in their borrowed instruments Friday and quietly said their farewells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2025
The teachers and students wave and their farewells float through the open windows.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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